Precursors to regulatory peptides: their proteolytic processing
- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 43 (7), 784-790
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01945356
Abstract
Precursors to regulatory peptides undergo maturation processes which include protelytic processing. The enzymes involved in this process remove the hydrophobic peptide located at the amino-terminus of the precursor. Endoprotease cleavage also occurs at single and two adjacent basic residues, this is followed by a removal of basic residues located at the C-terminus of the peptides by a carboxypeptidase-like enzyme.Keywords
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